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Which hearing aid brands have a FIND MY feature that works with smartphones

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You may be right but I thought that this feature uses GPS. Likewise step counting which I find very useful for golf as my phone can stay in the bag and my watch is inaccurate because I am holding onto a golf trolley. I do see a map showing the location but could be using the phone’s GPS.

In reply to @Flyboybob

Costco policy is you have to return the aids purchased. If you’ve already used the loss/damage claim in the first 180 days, then you can’t return the replacement. The paperwork provided explains this. Just be careful and you’re not likely to lose them.

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@Teewens said:

You may be right but I thought that this feature uses GPS

Yes, but in the phone not the aids. It continuously updates the most recent location of the phone until the phone loses connection with the aids. That last update is the position that find my gives you when you ask it where your aids are. You go back to that location and hope that Bluetooth can get you the rest of the way.

Oh yes, of course. Otherwise the would need GPS + a way of transmitting their position. So this feature only works if the HA stays where you lost it. Last autumn my HAs helped me find my phone. I could see the rough location but phone was on mute. But once I got near the phone and called it, my HAs played the ring tone. Turned out the phone was in a parked car. Fortunately, the owner arrived almost immediately.

In reply to @user490

Yes, my thought is that my hearing aids are either in my ears, or in the charger, or if I take it out of my ear it’s in my hand. Anytime I put on my cloths or a coat, I always check that my hearing aids are still in my ears.

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Yes, as stated above, ReSound aids do this in the ReSound app, at least on iPhones.

You should understand that there are limitations to the effectiveness of this feature which likely are not limited to ReSound aids. The aids are not transmitting a precise location via GPS. The aids use Bluetooth to be in contact with your cellphone; move the phone 25 feet away from the aids, and that connection is lost. So the app must be running and be set to allow location services for that app to be running Always, the phone must be in contact with a cell transmitter or a wifi hotspot, something that knows your location on the map, at the time you lose an aid. It won’t help you after the fact if you haven’t set the phone up to show the location before you lost the aid. If you’ve left your cellphone out of Bluetooth range of the aids, or if you’re out in a remote location with no cell service that can show you on a map where you are, the app will not know where the missing aid went missing. It also won’t know where the aid is if somebody finds it after you lost it and relocates it. Also Find My just gets you in the ballpark of the location. Find My is better than nothing, but it’s far from a guarantee that your phone will know where a missing aid is or that you will get it back.

re: comments above saying that if you only put your aids in the charger when not wearing them, you won’t lose them and won’t need Find My. In many cases, sure, this will prevent loss, but people do lose aids without intending to take them out, for example when removing hats, hoods, eyeglasses, and Covid masks… anything in the vicinity of the ears.

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